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We Like Sportz

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We Like Sportz

The podcast returns to a stripped-down format, focusing solely on the core duo after fans requested a more intimate experience. It begins with a heartfelt voice note from Daniel Scheiner, a theater designer, who reflects on the emotional impact of being unexpectedly part of the conversation, particularly on how theater design—like seating and acoustics—shapes audience engagement. The hosts then relive their formative days filming *We Like Sports* at a rented LA house, detailing the chaotic, creative energy of the shoot, technical hurdles like digitizing mini-DV tapes, and the unideal, hot, air-conditioning-less recording room. Humorous anecdotes surface about awkward encounters with celebrities like Jack Black and Matt Stone, emphasizing the value of nervous, authentic interactions. The episode also highlights a rare female response to the song, recorded by Liz, adding depth and balance to the male-dominated humor. Throughout, themes of friendship, improvisation, and shared creativity emerge, reinforcing the show’s roots in real, unfiltered collaboration. The experience is framed as a nostalgic time capsule of early comedy development, celebrating the raw, imperfect, and deeply human moments that define their work.

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♪ It's the lonely island and set by your spot cast, have you heard it? ♪ Here we are. Mine is the riff raft, Keeve. Well, the fans were asking for it after the last one, after the over-your-dead body one. - Clammer. - Clammer, geloud and clear. No more Seth and Andy and so. Yep. People, after over-your-dead body, after the last just-you-guys, they were like, we want this pod minus. Or fly over country. Yeah. So you're chewing gum on the pot. Yeah, you notice that. You know what? I'm gonna stop doing that. No, that's good radio. Did you ever use to listen to like recordings of like the Orson Wells radio shows? When he used to tune back in the like, whenever that was the '60s or '50s, '40s, I don't know, when did Orson Wells do radio? Well, that's how War of the Worlds ended. Like, where the world's scared people so much they were like, this is real. And then at the end, he's chewing, he started to chew gum and people were like, oh, maybe, no, it's probably not. That's how he let him know. He was just like, nah, nah, nah, nah. Just kidding. Just kidding. Yeah, we're good, guys. Don't worry about the aliens. Got you. Brought to you by Riggley's Spare Midgum. Pile myself on the back, but that was a very good Orson Wells. So, you're now that it's just us, jokers. Let's talk about the last time it was just us. You know, we did talk about theater rakes for a little while, and of course Seth ripped on us for it. And then I said, hey, don't worry about it. I've been assured that people like shop talk, you know, that they like hearing about the crime going back on this, like they don't like it now. I feel like that's true, but I'm sticking with this. So, I'm going to play you a three-part. I hope this is from someone who designs theaters, whatever your resume is. I would love that, but no. Anybody who designs theaters, welcome to, to send you something. But Daniel Scheiner, one of the two Daniels from, you know, the Daniels. He, you know, we had talked about him because he was the one I name check saying he liked it. So, then he sent me a voice in the last night, not for the pod, as like a follow-up of like how weird it was for him to be in the car, listening to the pod on the way home from work, from working on their new, they're prepping their new movie, and then hearing us talk about him and all of a sudden being kind of like snapped out of the trance of like, listening passively to being part of the show he's listening to. Is there a new movie? Just, this is just a guess. Is there a new movie, like a really slow courtroom drama? A hundred percent, yes. We're breaking the news here. If deadline listens, it's a courtroom drama. Okay, but you're, it's a three-part because he ends it by telling me not to play it on the pod. So, there was stuff out of respect that I cut out. That was just him talking to me in this voice note, but then this is the part that is relevant to theater rate. You cut out all the courtroom drama stuff. Yeah, exactly. I didn't want any spoilers for his courtroom drama. Okay. And then the craziest part is that today at lunch before I knew I was going to call you, I brought up the theater rake thing and I talked about it with several people that I thought it was genuinely deeply interesting to me because everybody talks about IMAX as the ideal format to see movies, but I saw my own movie in IMAX once and I got pretty bored because all I wanted was to hear the laughter to see how people are reacting and the theater rake and the seating made it so, and they'll sound made it so I couldn't tell if anyone was enjoying themselves. And I never put, I could never put it into words what had happened until you and your moment to theater rakes. Okay. It's great. And you didn't spoil anything. That's great. No, I just gave you the clip, but also what's great about it is you know it's genuine because I'll play you now the second part. Great. And this is not, you know, me trying to get someone to back up our great theater rake conversation. This is just. You don't take criticism lying down. No, I didn't. I'm saying this just came to it. This is a gift. Here you go. This is short. Okay. I feel like I recorded this in the style of a voice note as if I think it should be on the podcast for the record. This should not be on the podcast. Yeah, that's how he ended. I only want to hear voices of people who don't want to be on the podcast. Okay, but then I did I'll be all right full disclosure. Then afterwards I said I'm going to cut out most of the stuff. But I do I am going to play part of it. I said if there's anything you want to add. Great. You can now send that to me. And so that's nice of you. Yeah. This third one is after he knows that I've cut up his thing and I'm going to play something. Great. Hey, Akiva and you're and maybe the podcast since you maybe are going to use that voice memory sent you on the podcast. Here's a follow up because you asked if I was talking about everything everywhere I was. And I'm so grateful that they did an upres of the movie and I max and it was really fun for the record. I max is so cool. But thank you so much for breaking down why other theaters are also cool. I have had so many wonderful experiences and theaters that were flat and you finally helped me understand. So just big fan of this a rake centric podcast. So honored to be on we just let off and just do and also just big fan of we like sports. Did you shoot that at the house you all rented for the first album is a good transition. Funny anecdote. I don't think I've ever told you guys. I was an intern at Tim and Eric awesome show they came to that house to shoot. And I think I walked with Akiva down the driveway to help pick up pizza that you had ordered. And I was too nervous to give you a compliment or say anything. And afterwards I was like wow I sure am bad at networking I think my career is not going to work out. But luckily other Daniel helped save me years later. Anyway, hello nice to meet you cool house. Those are the kind of things I wish I had said 17 years ago. Cool house. Okay, but it was a cool house and we shot the shit out of it. Having said that like what I really like about that I'm saying that is just you never know who is with you. Fucking he was an intern like it's like the best thing about LA. It was a nice thing about the industry. Yeah, fucking that dude is a fucking genius. Cause they didn't come with a big crew either. It was like Jonathan Chrysel and like three guys and the flight of the Concords and Tim and Eric and that was it. Yeah, just a bunch of creative motherfuckers. Yeah, it was not a lot of guys and he was one of them. Isn't that crazy? No, it's crazy. It reminded me. Did we or each other story? You just say something though real quick. You are so intimidating and it makes sense that why he would like be walking you there being like this guy is so cool. Yeah, and his house is so cool. Cool house. He could have said. Imagine how different his trajectory, the sliding doors of his life. How a door would probably would have ruined his life if he had said. Cool house. He never would have met the other Daniel. Oh, wow. That's like an interstellar, you know, and like just like so many different options of universes. This is me and Andy, you weren't there, but do you remember when we first got to LA, me and Andy went to a Baja fresh on sunset and saw Jack Black. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, wait, I got a story too. And we were the huge is tenacious defense. Yeah. Yeah. And he was just by himself. If you ever felt like you would be scared to go up to some celebrity, you look up to like eating a burrito by yourself is a pretty easy way to go up to them. I know you want to say like, hey, cool order. I mean, Andy couldn't think of the right thing to say. And we just went, you know, one day we'll meet him because we'll have made something cool and then we'll have something to say to him. And we just left him alone. And so I guess I'm Jack Black in Daniel's eyes in a way. Yeah, I guess it's my point. Just too nervous to say hello to a really intimidating guy. Movie star. Like, well, can I say so? Okay. On the flip side of that. Yeah. And this is a little toot around horn, but it's also a very norm story. I was on Melrose and like a theme like a norm story. Enjoy the madness. Go ahead. Okay. Okay. Okay. So I'm on Melrose and I see Sasha Baron Cohn and Ila getting into their car and I freak out and I have. This is before hot rod. This is before before hot rod before anything, right? And so like, so, but I'm right near near your guys's house. I'm with Mari. I'm like, yeah, Priaz and I was pretty, pretty everything, right? And so we had made white power, which is a joke. You guys, it was a little pilot episode about us getting addicted to tooth whiteener. And it was a little pilot we put all together ourselves, probably 20-something minutes. And I had a copy on a DVD. We had spent the only money we really spent was to go to a VHS dupe place and maybe it was a VHS. Oh, maybe it was a VHS. Yeah, it was to make like 20 VHS types of it. So I had one in the car. I tell him, I'm like, I gotta go talk to him. I run over to him. I'm like, we made this thing. But like, you know, just so nervous. He was nice, but we didn't know him at the time. And I hit it, and then I talked to you guys like 20 minutes later. I was like, I sent him the, like, I gave Sasha the thing. And you were like, we have the same manager. He's with Julie Dermity. Like, so we actually have the same manager. I was like, oh, okay. That's hilarious because yeah, Jimmy Miller, that's the same thing. Yeah. But that doesn't matter. It's still different. Like Jimmy probably would never bother him with it. But it's so hard. Like, I, nobody has 20 minutes for anything anymore. I'm like, I don't know if he ever saw it, but I don't know. You know what I don't think I ever told Matt Stone from train. I just, I just saw Matt Stone at Parker and Matt Stone. Where'd you see him? I saw him at Julia Cummings. a record release party at public records in New York and is Edgar Wright's lovely, lovely partner, Julia Cummings. And her show was freaking awesome. And I saw Matt Stone and I saw-- - It's so fun. It was like a Brooklyn concert release party. - Yeah. - Yeah, it was really a great show. It's a great album if you guys. - But I did that same thing. Do you remember that I did that to Matt Stone? - I'm talking 2003, 2002. - Before, yeah, yeah. I saw him in Santa Monica eating outside with a friend at a restaurant and was like, oh my God, that's Matt Stone. And I had the tapes in the car and I went and I was super apologetic, dude, I don't want to bother you. I just, we made a funny thing, I don't know. I see you here, I have to give it to you. You don't have to do anything with it. You can watch it if you want, but-- - Dude, you know what's so crazy? Is when I saw him, he was still mad about it. He was like-- - That makes sense. - He threw it back in my face and was like, I'll never forget this. - I was at lunch with my agent and you interrupted you piece of shit. That sounds like Matt. - So don't do it, guys. - Yeah, yeah, that's the lesson. It's crazy that we, those are still two the biggest legends of comedy of all time. So we did have, those are good run-ins. Plus Jack Black, I mean, it's not like we were seeing famous people all the time. - No, no, no, no. And by the way, Matt Stone ripped. - I gave him a hug. - Oh yeah. - Underneath, you just tell, I would not be surprised if he's German on white status. - Whoa. - Yeah, he seemed to just really fit. - This is breaking news. - I mean, I really got in there too, guys, because I felt around the back. - He'd be good in a courtroom drama. I'm just trying to tie in a little Daniel's film here. We got a ripped Matt Stone. - What, you're thinking, he's on the stand, he's getting badgered, he tears off his shirt, and he's like, you can't handle my truth. Something like that. - Yeah, I love this. - This is my fucking truth. Check it. - It doesn't quite apply to my truth. - This is the truth. - This is my Bible and his ab saying this is the fucking truth. I don't know, Daniel's confused it if they want. - All right, so we're here to talk about We Like Sports. We've already done this to you guys. Before we watch it, would you agree it's the best one of the four? - I think it's my fave. I mean, I think that there's some really, really good stuff and we need love, but I think this is my fave. - Like, when we went on tour, there was no debate between, you know, we were like, we're gonna do A Just Two Guys song, we're gonna do sports, right? - Yeah, which is kind of weird, I guess, like, in terms of, you know, you would always assume that the original would be your fave, but yeah, I think that we really hit our stride in this one. - Yeah, and I like the next two when we do them. There's stuff that I really enjoy, but we like sports is the winner. - It feels like it's getting to write to the core of who these guys are and what their issues might be. They definitely have dad problems. - Yeah, there's a lot of backstory kind of character growth, character, not really growth, but what do I mean? Like development. - Yeah, there's some, there's definitely some backstory. I feel like you really hit on that too, because it felt like at one point you were like, yeah, they're doing impressions of their dad. It's really in the line, if my team loses, I'll be mean all night. - Yeah, that's clearly from the perspective of somebody. - Oh, yeah, that's a good dad. - He's like, oh, when dad's team loses, he's mean all night. It's exactly what they're saying. He throws things. - Yeah, and the fact that we wanna emulate our dads, 'cause then when I was like, you know, we smoke cigars, smell our cars. I'm like, that's also some dad issues. - Yeah, we've noticed how it smells in there. - This is incredibly bad. So this is our first time, our first summer in the Big and Seenow house that Dan is so impressed with, 'cause just you guys predated it. So we put this on incredibly bad. - Yes, and I know we've said this before, but when we went to this house, it was our big expense that we actually like, we didn't have an engineer, we're just recording ourselves in this shitty room. I'm just giving a little like backstory again with everybody knows. But like obsessed with this shit. - I love, well, it was a pretty shit room. I'll send a picture of what it looked like of where we recorded. And then we were all living at the same house, and yeah, and this was a fantastic place to shoot. I mean, we really shot every part of this house. - Yeah, and I remember the guy who owned the house at one point was like, hey, oh, really? - It was filming. - Now, of course we had no crew. It's just me and you and Jonah and then sometimes Chester. - Oh, I don't remember this. - Jonah Goldstein and sometimes Chester Tam. - Did he come back? - So it's not like you're seeing a production happen and going like, yo, your lease is for you to live here. Like, as we've discussed, this house gets used as a shooting location. Now the house is gone, but when it was existed, it was a shooting location. - I would imagine this shooting location would have been like 20 grand a day. Like, it's a really nice act. - Exactly, it'd be way more. And we kind of assured him it's a home video, which was true kind of at the moment. - When you make it something for a zero, it certainly wasn't gonna make any money. - Like it wasn't going to. - When we made it for zero dollars, and we kind of assumed it wouldn't be on our album, and it was just a goof around. - Like, yes. - It'd be like shooting TikToks and then your landlord being like, you can't shoot TikToks in here. - Yes, but we did push it, obviously, because Tim and Eric definitely didn't pay for the location and that was on TV. - Yeah, that one was pushing it when they showed up. And we were like, yeah, use the 10 square, then it was like a little like, ugh. - If someone came today, that'd be a little weird. - Yeah, we would be charged for sure. - So we do have the voice number for Chester as promised that he recorded back in February when we did the just two guys episode. - Yeah, we have a bunch of voice notes. - Do you wanna like do that one as a kickoff and then we'll watch it? - Yeah, sure, let's see what Chester says. - J-Dog. - Ooh, just two guys, I remember this. We shot this music video at that huge Insino House that you guys rented out after your second year at SNL. And this house was huge. It was like, there was a barn in the back. There was a full court basketball court. There was a huge swimming pool. It was like an incredible house and I couldn't believe you guys were fucking renting this house. And I remember us running around the camera trying to find the lamest shots on four acres of land and Insino and never running out of ideas 'cause all of it was so good. The one shot that really stuck out to me was the shot where we locked off the camera on the front lawn and Keven Yorm just kept peaking out of different areas and then Keve layered it in post to make it look like one shot. But that shot stuck out to me because I remember we collectively came up with that idea and I saw a chief perk up, like ooh, that's a new lame-o shot, but usually it's Keve coming up with that lame shot. But the fact that we all kind of did it and he was like, oh yeah, that's a good one. It was fun to see 'cause I haven't shot with you guys in probably like two years. The other thing, and I'm gonna make this podcast sound really controversial now, Keve. Tell me if I'm wrong, but I remembered editing just to guys or being in the room with you guys was that Keve was a little pissy about editing just to guys, at least digitizing it. And I remember that sticking out because I was wondering why Keve was so upset about it and I was thinking is it? Was it maybe because SNL had given you this infrastructure where you didn't have to do these menial tests anymore and you can kind of get shit done if you just ask the powers that be. And whereas this music video was back to lonely island shit where you had to be the assistant editor and the editor and everything in between don't even know if you want down the podcast. I think I just thought I'd make it a little controversial and a little extra. Keve, tell me if I'm wrong, it's not. I just don't remember. You don't have to put this in, plug it. Dude, I think that is actually a really good thing to put in because it was so fucking annoying to digitize shit and that is one thing that was done for us at SNL. And it's not so much that it was like-- This sounds strong, but I'm sure I was just in there and I'm like, oh god, I'm just fucking stuck here. Going through every shot and like ingest and shit. Well, we could so for the kiddos out there that don't know what digitizing means. Because nowadays you'd shoot, it would go right to a card and then you would just transfer, the footage would just copy over onto a hard drive. And maybe you'd have to convert it or something. But back then, you're shooting on cameras that shoot onto mini DV tape. I'm assuming that we like to watch a shot on something that shot onto it. I believe it was XL1, or the Canon one, or one of those-- Yeah, it might have been the little Sony one. But anyways, so it's mini DV tapes. So even though it's technically digital video, I don't know the, like, it's not analog, but it looks analog and it's tape. I don't exactly understand, but it's this real moment when it was between analog and digital. So it's technically digital video, but it records on tapes. So to get it off the tape, you can't just say, like, put it into the computer. You have to plug the camera or a deck, if you had one, which we didn't, into the computer. And then one by one, shot by shot, like, log them in. Kind of go, OK, here's where this shot starts. Here's where this one ends. Record it. Then it plays in real time into the computer, while the computer is digitizing. Meaning it's-- It's sucked. It sucked. And then-- And that's how we have to make all the old stuff. And then you'd label it and go, OK, that was a clip of this. Put it into a folder. And now go to the next. So if you shot an hour of footage, that hour of footage could take you six hours to digitize. Yeah. And I do think, at SNL-- well, number one, we were probably using some cameras that recorded right to SD cards. But yes, we did have a little bit of infrastructure, namely, Matt Yonks, who, while we'd be filming those tapes, we'll get run back to him, because there wouldn't be time for us to do it. And by the time we got back to editing, he had already digitized them, if needed. So what was, like, lazy Sunday and those? Because it was-- we were on tape. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I mean, like, this was a huge part of our life. Obviously like when just like it was so much fucking time. I honestly forgot about it until he said it And I don't remember being pissy, but it makes it pissy such a strong word, but I guarantee we were wine Oh, it sucks. It's like it totally sucks And if you also see the picture of the room that we were it was just hot and stanky That was the real problem is that when we'd be recording in that room I'm sure we talked about it, but you couldn't have the AC the AC the central AC in the house Yeah, you know when you have a room in a huge house that's really far from the central AC It doesn't reach it. No, we bought an air conditioner You remember that so then we yes We had to buy one of those cheap ones that like goes through the window not the kind you install because we didn't own the house But the kind that's like a little R2D tube with a tube But it's crazy loud so we would turn it on and off between takes we would like jam it when we weren't recording And then like we just immediately like it would turn off and get super fucking hot and then I had that thing for years It somehow made it to New York. I feel like or it made it Did it and we like shipped everything dude? I don't know that's crazy. I think make it to New York is crazy. Yeah Might I might genuinely have it in Connecticut now. All right. Shall we yeah? Hello, hi, do you want to go to a party with me? No? The game's on I mean, I'm just gonna stop it constantly ready So for those who are just listening to the pot. I mean they'll grab what I'm sharing and if you want to watch on YouTube You can see where I'm paused, but I just wanted to pause here. You don't because it's literally the AC thing We were just talking about Also, can we talk about that cell phone because it says guy number one is calling and I'm just glad that we were able to have a cell phone That fucking could do that. Yeah, pretty fancy shit. It's so bad. Yeah, so there's the house. Yeah, we look good gone now torn down Yeah, there's the kitchen with the hang space. This is where we spent 99% of our time the passage of time here And also like I know we talked about this for a bit with like right to came aren't bought out the whole section of the cool guy shirts So every one of our shirts is pretty bad. I think it's a cool school or something like that. Yeah, fucking sick hardcore Hello, hi, do you want to go to a party with me? No games up. Oh I'll be right there. We like sports and we don't care. Oh no, we have we've got some plates of sport teams from the cameart and hung them up Uh, we put sports on the background. I think we waited till there were sports on yeah, like I think we like had to find a Sandout around because that couch is facing away from the TV just to make the shot look. Oh, yeah Everyone is here. I got my snacks my friends and up here just two normal guys hanging out having fun right guy number two Yeah, guy number one. I like what Chester said about How like we were just looking around this place and never ran out of ideas. It's true like What a jackpot to have this house when we came up with this concept We we always sort of describe these kids that they were like cold as sack kids Yeah, and this house was perfect. It like it felt like it wasn't even in LA It felt like it was like the suburbs. It definitely has rich parents. Yeah Well now they do. Yeah, it's the location. Oh my god on the shot of the couch We put up plates on the sides that were like sports plates at cameart have taped him to the wall Yeah, and then later we use those in the Be began shooting range for ourselves as targets. So cool. Very cool. Eat to the ass to the pizza in is Maybe the shop that Chester was talking about but maybe we'll have to see to the end is all I watch because I'm the man I mean that floaty we didn't buy it for this we had already bought it right for real life. Yeah Oh, no, we love that thing. I was a lot of drinking was done on that floaty I mean I we have great photos of Chester and us and Jonah hell and everybody on this floaty. I feel like Jonah so Jonah sent a bunch of voice notes We'll get to after this, but like I feel like Jonah was there this day and granted we are lame characters We're obviously meant to be as lame as possible, but I do remember being even slightly embarrassed Doing this Because we look so busted But what's funny is if like you look at the show right now like that's just us like we know there's nothing around Yeah, we're not really doing like we're just like yeah, we're just in matching swim trunks That's like we just look busted, but that's it. I guess we are, you know what I mean? Great Hot tub with white t-shirts soaking wet white t-shirts is the whole vibe, you know what I mean We knew that we knew we really were hidden. It's something with that vibe It's definitely a little surprising that they would ever take their shirts off Yeah, I like that these guys put on white shirts for the hot tub and took them off for the floaty But let's just the you know, I guess there's some logic gaps happen Steve has a Chinese Yolio and double sticks. Why is why is Steve willing to be in these videos, but he's but he was so it's like It's like we invited him over he's showing up look at his face when he's walking up at first He's so excited. Hey guys look at his little face. I'm so excited to be here with my devil sticks You guys want to play with this and I guess what we're implying here is that when the cameras aren't rolling We are happy to play with the Chinese Yolio and devil sticks He's he looks like he has reason to believe showing up with these with a big smile is gonna work out And I think it does and then and now we know people are watching and we're like fuck off Yeah, they hang out with Steve and they just need they're so picked on at school They just absolutely need someone to be lamored than they are but I think that they probably do hang out with Steve a bunch He just seems like he's the neighbor who has yeah cool gear. I mean we'll get into it in the next video But he's got us when we do it, you know, he's got a snake pet snake. This guy's really cool He's got it. He's got it all in a girlfriend. Yeah, that's in the even next one There's progress being made I wonder what high school we went to for that show Yeah, you can really get the scope of how much land there was here. I do like that we had the werewolf all to Have me throw a frisbee and then joining shot as if I hit it but then I'm yeah hitting it with a baseball bat And it's a different sport Hockey shot at the high school. I'm so into hockey just you're just by a trash can. No hockey stick I'm pretending like how do we get the helmet? I don't know how we got that something was abroad that Nuts when I say cheating you say sucks cheating sucks cheating sucks. I drink whiskey because I like the taste You think it's bitter, but I think it's great. I also drink whiskey and we smoke cigars. Don't believe me smell our cars Just drove around parking lots till we saw bright colored we we didn't go very far, dude I think we walked off the street. I think that's the parking lot on the corner. Yeah, yeah I do think that that is on the corner of where the house was. Look at these fucking sharpshoes. Just so stiff I'm team captain and I choose you. I'm the other team captain and I choose you to we steal the ball and we're off to the races And scare the other team with our mad dog faces like what? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? That's a Songory. Yeah, it's a Norway. I feel like I feel like Nobody ever got our references like all they have opera sentences. Yeah, I mean, they're not that deep, but they're deeper than your average Price no, but I do I do like that every time we did one I would have to match the drums of the song so like that little blah blah Like however it builds. Yeah, I did have to go in and build those things. So yeah, you had to listen Yeah, yeah, so anytime we did like you know whether it was the Cool, which is also the way that Which song was it? It's like I think it's a steady B song, but the On cool beans when it goes to cool beans. I think that's a rip off of a steady B drum pattern And I can't remember what song it is, but wait another comment on which one it is We talked about how when we did our live show we did 20 was average. Yes. Yeah, how many bitches you got a lot a lot Throw me the baseball Now feed me the rock Now give me the rock One of my favorite shots I'm so I'm so mad that you took it from me like I just like yeah I know you have to for the song, but I really want to hold the basketball. I just take it back It's so it's so perfectly petty. I do really like saying things like past me the pigs Give me the big skater like it sort of points out how ridiculous words are even and like, a pig skin, they give me the pig skin. - Here's some of the comments. What's the most recent comment? - Some comments, five years ago someone wrote, these guys really had it all. Friend, sports, and a swimming pool. (laughing) And it's surprising that they had a pool. - Watching sports with girls is a pain. They don't know the rules, there's no time to explain. Is another, you know, you really understand the fantasy that they're in of like, why there's no, it's why they don't have girlfriends. It's like, oh God, it's just too much. Like, we have so much going on that we could never. - Yeah, believe me, girls would like to be here. - It's like, and we just can't tolerate it. (laughing) - We're always talking over to the game. The pre-game jokes, the wrap-up show, I also really, yeah, they like it all. - That's definitely dad's thing is like, he can't concentrate even through the wrap-up show. We're gonna be just like him. - We're inviting someone to smell our cars. That's fucking, yeah, try to call our bluff, dude. Get in our car and smell it. Wow, these guys must really, really smoke cigars 'cause it smells in here. - Oh my God, also the whiskey's being bitter. Like, that's clearly, we both, like, dare each other to drink whiskey and we hated it. But also, like, when one of us would clearly write a lyric, like, I drink whiskey, the other one would be like, I also drink whiskey, like, they can't, they have to be included, like, why? The other one that kills me is the, I'm team captain, I choose you. Like, you're like, oh, these guys have never been picked first for anything, like, oh, they've support guys. I have some Jonah notes. - Yeah, I also have a Liz voice now too. - Well, and this is, this is Jonah Hill here. We should get one from Jonah Goldstein 'cause he was a. - We asked Jonah, so we asked Jonah for one and he had a good memory for Will Kill You and The Snake, which will play later. But he didn't have one for this, even though he was there the whole time. So then your thought would be, good, that's the other Jonah, who was not there. - Well, no, he was. He was definitely at the house for some of this. 'Cause he said-- - For some of us filming it? Yeah, 'cause, oh, right, you said that you remember being a bearish. So that really happened? That really, that really happened. I remember distinctly, like him, and he said that it was, like, one of his great, let's see what he says. - Okay, great. - Throw it on there. - My name is. I'm your Andrew. I believe it's set fires. It's Jonah, Jonah's Hill, your favorite. And you only asked me to talk about the time that I came by the house and you guys were shooting just two guys and he had a big memory of me being there. Obviously, it was more memorable for me being that I got to watch the friggin' fuckin' Mona Lisa get paid to play my eyes. (laughing) I thought it was fuckin' on the open, the pinchies, fuckin' hearts studio, but it was in the house in the valley. And I was watching two little nickel-ingalos after a little part-south, literally telling the love sports. That whole period, which I remember earlier for my snouts, was like the best period of my whole life. It was like, right, as we were able to, like, keep on your federal jobs, but you guys were smart enough to get a big, really fun house, we could all think how that. And swim and be stupid. And I, you know, like, it's much more with the guys, like I always want to be in with you and fuckin' say this, be sure you're like, I just always want to wrap on and regard to themselves. But it was just so cool to watch what you guys were doing. Like, these guys are besties and brilliancees and they're making stuff that it's gonna be like, well, it's like this is genius, you know? And all jokes aside, it was like, those memories to me are very sacred. And they also are inspiring to be like, that's how stuff should be made with friends being polarious. And please excuse the Paw Patrol in the background, we're so, it's watching Paw Patrol. But, dude, I can't wait to show my kids the second every one of them on the island videos. Anywho, it was so cool, it was hot. You guys, I caught the effect of temperature. And you guys were just whole airy. So I was just like, this is such a cool scene, you know? This whole thing is just amazing. And I'm lucky to be around this. Doing bits with these guys, having fun, spending my 20s on this kind of energy. Love you boys. Love you, Joe. - That was very sweet. - Yeah, that was very, it was very nice. Thank you, Joe. And here's a second one that he did. - We sent two. - I also want to say, very underrated actor in the Lonely Island is Mimima Shaffer. It is weird body language in this film in particular is just Daniel Day and his style to me. That's very kind of him. He calls me Mimima, by the way. - Yes, yes. - Yeah. - I'm great. I'm glad that we have another nickname for you. - For Cuba fun, they were in watch where he started going, Mimima. - I did not know that. - I forget why. I mean, obviously it's Akiva, the syllables are Akiva, but I forget when it became Mimima. - Well, and then when AC alone had the song Mimima, and we started calling you Akiva. - Exactly, unrelated, but they're very similar. - I love making love to Mimima Akiva. You guys know the song. - Well, that was very nice of Jonah as well. I don't know, he's got one last one. Oh, a third. Yeah, it's a lot, a lot of Jonah. Here we go. No, I like it. - Oh, one last thing. It's so funny, man, because I just had this last memory and went to this Mexican restaurant that you guys would always go to, and it's so good. It was one of the best Mexican restaurants I had ever been to. And the waiter was like, "Dude, when you guys get home, "you gotta turn on common Central." 'Cause tonight there's this-- - No, no, no. - Goddamn, and you show off when the guys from Men and Tights is like a standup, the standups, but he also does like a standup. - The standup. - Spures, racial, and sort of, I think, norms, you know? - Just like the waiter told us. - Spures, it takes a torch to it. Torches it. Yeah, David, wasn't Mel Brooks, wasn't Richard Lewis. It was David Sheppell from Men and Tights. And it's out of this world. You guys have to be watching it, we were cracking out, and we were just like stitches. Anyway, yeah, just two guys, very funny. - Oh, gosh, damn it. - He cut it off before ending. - I should have expected that we were going to get a Rick Rolls into David Sheppell show. For those who didn't catch Jonah's earlier voice messages or back on earlier episode to this pod, it's been an ongoing joke for almost 20 years now that Jonah tries to turn us on to this little known show. - Oh my god, I fall for it every time. - I spent the first half of that voice no, trying to remember what Mexican restaurant he could be talking about until I realized it was a big old lie. I just chewed on that bait, David Sheppell, from Men and Tights. You know him, from Men and Tights. - Yeah, it wasn't Mel Brooks or Richard Lewis. It was the other guy, David Sheppell. The guy who does standups. Anyway, thank you Jonah. - Thank you Jonah. - All right, I'm looking at the lyrics here just to see if there was anything else that. I mean, we do say that we're two normal guys hanging out having fun, which of course is one of our favorite refrains to insist that we're normal. - Probably inspired normal guy, honestly. - An even less normal guy. - If you tell me to relax, we'll get in a fight with a second half of the being mean all night, which is also clearly has happened where someone was like, hey, relax. And then like the fight happens. I mean, it's clearly his mom who's dead. Their moms are desperately trying to keep their family together. I think it's your dad's always ready to throw down. - We don't like cheating. - It sucks. - Oh, I love that font. Like that font is like clearly like one of those like first thought fonts, like yeah, that'll work. - You know what, getting into our shop talk 'cause when we, again, without the buzzards around, we get to just play. - Thank you. - I can't remember if that's the wrong font or if in another version of it, maybe on the DVD. So when the albums would first come out, they would do a bonus version that had a DVD. And what happens is final cut pro doesn't, maybe now it'll warn you. But back then, you know how some, you'll be on one computer. It'll have a bunch of fonts. - Yeah. - And then you might go to another computer that doesn't have all the same fonts. - Yes. - And is that what happened? - We chose a font. - Yes. - It was a better font. - Then we were like at SNL on a different computer and they were like, hey, we need an output for the DVD or vice versa for the website. I can't remember. And we loaded it up and everything connected. It looked perfect. So we're like, great, output at the right settings, done. And it didn't warn you that like, hey, because we were just using like at a, if you were doing this professionally, you would never just be typing the words on. You would do it in like illustrator, create what's it called, the PNG file or whatever. Some sort of a C through file, transparent file that has the words. And it would be locked in because it's just a graphic. Like if tarad SNL had given it to us. - Yeah, and then you don't have to worry about this because it was separate. - It would never change. So we were doing it the way kids would where you just are pulling up the typing thing and typing right into your video. And so when it opened on a new computer, it went to a default font. And we had always chose a lame font. Like I think the YouTube one is the correct one. But I think if you watch on the DVD that came with it, or potentially then that means the one on iTunes or on Apple Music might be either the wrong. And I remember some kid at the time commenting somewhere that I saw and going, I wonder why they changed the font and me going, what? We didn't change the font. And going back and looking and being like, why the fuck is the font different? And the one we just watched though, is the correct one? I think the one we just watched is correct. I know it was a Bootsie font either way, Yes, but it was. is a font we had chose. - The fact that whenever it gets to that point though, I always clock it, and it maybe is the wrong one, because like I always remember it. Like, you know, you have that sense memory of like, I feel like we chose something different. - Yes. - And so there is two versions of this video out there by accident. - Yeah. - All right, I was looking through the things I think we've kind of covered it, but it is my favorite, and I love doing it on stage. So let's just see, and maybe we won't include this, but maybe we will. Let me just go on YouTube here, and see if I can find one of our We Like Sports Lives for us to just look at and see how it felt. - So we did a, like a test show in Pasadena, so this would be our very first time doing it. - Yeah, that was a good show. - On a very, in a very small venue. - And by the way, low ceilings, good rake, that was a pop and show. - Oh, great rake to that. - So this is just someone's iPhone footage of Barnaroo 2019, and we are doing We Like Sports. So let's see how it feels. (upbeat music) - Oh my gosh. - So the intro starts doing flashes which is like enough photos we took from that when we were dressed. So just the wackest shots of us with dramatic music that you're hearing, but it's just like, as if you're about to reveal Batman or something. Oh, this is fucking dope. As if the coolest guys are about to get on stage. - Yeah. - But we just look terrified in those photos. (laughing) - Oh well. - Hi, do you want to go to a party with me? - No, the game's on. (upbeat music) - I'll be right here. We like We Like Sports to We Up here. (laughing) - We sure think who's gonna stand for a ball. - We sound perfect. (upbeat music) - The game is starting, everyone is here. I've got my snacks and I'm right here. - We're probably able to perform this song live the best of any, 'cause it's like We're dead on it. - Dude, we're so tiny. - All right, so I'll fast forward. (upbeat music) - That's fine. (upbeat music) - Hearing 30,000 people say sucks. - You can drink, I also drink whiskey and we smoke cigars. Don't believe me, smell our cars. - We're right there. - People are singing along. - We're in the game. (upbeat music) - And I choose you. I'm the other team captain, and I choose you too. (laughing) - We're off to the race. - Let's get the other team with our man down, say the right. - First down, thought you out. - I just want to see the bus down. I'll pick it up. - Now break it down. - Speed it up. - Now slow it down. - How much money you got? - A lot. - How many problems you got? - A lot. - How many lawyers you got? - A lot. - How many times you got shot? - A lot. - Hey, fuck with me and get some money. - Hey, fuck with us and get some money. (laughing) - God, that sucks. Jesus Christ. - Fuck with us and get some money. - Oh, what a perfect performance. - I feel like I had fucked up that little one part, but man, besides that, wow. 30,000 people having to watch that. - You go nuts. - Not nuts. - That's what I'm saying. (laughing) - Again, it was always the most incredible thing to like have people interact with that and be like, wow, people like this level of stupidity. - You know what, I will go to Wheel Like Sports live again for one second, 'cause I feel like Pasadena was a full year earlier because that was the practice show for cluster fast. - Oh, and we probably switched it up at the back cap. - So I feel like if I fast forward to the end, we'll have done different songs. - Yeah, for sure. - Buzzdown, Tatiana. - I forgot. - I wanna see you, Buzzdown. (laughing) This is a real time capsule. Fuck with us and get some money. These guys definitely are gonna fucking change your life. - All right, so I'll fast forward through this one. (upbeat music) ♪ We're off to the race ♪ ♪ Let's carry on the beat with a pass off ♪ ♪ Tell me when to go ♪ ♪ I'll leave with you guys ♪ ♪ Tell me when to go ♪ ♪ Tell me when to go ♪ - It's jazz there. It's also 'cause we knew we were prepping for cluster fast which was in San Francisco. - Yes. - So we're like, let's do some bass shit too. - Oh my god, what? - Wait, I'm wearing these hose ain't loyal shirts. (laughing) - What do you wanna do? - What do you wanna do? - Can you see it? - Hey kid. ♪ And I'm on the way ♪ ♪ To the end of the world ♪ - Okay, we ended so much. (cheering) - Hey! - Hey! ♪ Hey, fuck with us and get some money ♪ (cheering) - Is yours say built by swag or something? - Something. - Maybe. - Something by swag. - I just, it's funny 'cause I think it's the same shirt, right? Like, we're like costumed out now. - Yeah, we were ready for our first big show. So this is technically our first show ever because we, this was the practice show for cluster fast. - This hose ain't loyal. - All right, well that's a treat. I mean, both of the whistle and tell me when to go are still great choices. - To, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, and then you said everybody, and you can hear they start to go, "To, to, to, to, to." - Those are the dumbest things. - All right, well. - Kelly. - Oh wait, so I can't believe we waited this late for it. So we're in the house in Encino. All our girlfriends at the time, maybe yours is a wife. - Probably feel like it. - Joe and Liz are girlfriends. They're all there with us doing their own things. You guys heard it and goes, "Hey, I wrote something. Will you record me?" And I can't find, we'd have to go find the original hard drives from the incredible bad sessions, which we don't know where they are. So I asked her if she could remember it and I remembered some of it. So this is an acapella version of a female response to we like sports that she did. - She did. - It's like a disc track, right? - Yeah, at the time. She just, she recorded this when we were doing the just two guys episode a month ago, a couple months ago. And I've been sitting on it. Here we go. - Oh, you talking sports and let me get in the game. You think sports are cool. Well, I think sports are lame. You never listen when the game is on. And when you throw a pass, you think you're Don Juan. I'll give you this. You made a nice catch. When you met me, oh, game set match. - I feel like the original had an extra verse, but we couldn't remember it. So there you go. - I do remember her recording. And then me being like, I would love to have had a response, like three person discs. Like Mari doing it. - Yeah, that they all do. - There's still time guys. - It's very, very cute. And it's in the tradition of like, you know, rock, sand, rock, sand or something. You can't play with my yo-yo. - You remember that one? - Oh, yeah, totally. - Yo-yo ice cube back and forth. - There was kind of a trend of men and women like talking shit to each other and ladies taking it back. - That was great. Thank you, Liz. - All right, I've loved talking to you today. Your shout out to the quays, shout out to Seth and Andy. I know we ribbed you guys pretty hard, you know, but you can take it. Leave the body. You get a little ribbing. It's all in good fun. It's all joshing around. - All right. You want to do the honors? I love you, bud. - I love you too, Keeve. Take it away, Arnold. ♪ Things allowed and wasted week ♪ ♪ Couldn't lose this compound nightly ♪ ♪ In the spirit of this way ♪ ♪ We'd heard each other with the things we wanted to say ♪ ♪ We could have been so good together ♪ ♪ We could have lived this dance forever ♪ ♪ But now ♪ ♪ Who's kind of dance with me ♪ - Oh, shit. Thank you for taking it away, Arnold. - Yeah. That was taking away my heart. - All right. Later, Arnold.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The podcast explores a return to a simpler format—just the core duo—after previous episodes involving additional guests, drawing on fan demand for a more intimate experience.
  2. A voice note from Daniel Scheiner, a theater designer and filmmaker, shares a personal and emotional reaction to being unexpectedly included in a podcast discussion, highlighting the impact of theater design and audience experience—particularly how seating and acoustics affect audience reactions.
  3. The hosts reflect on their early days, including a memorable trip to a rented house in LA where they filmed *We Like Sports*, emphasizing the creative freedom, chaotic energy, and camaraderie during those formative years.
  4. The episode includes behind-the-scenes details about technical challenges like digitizing mini-DV tapes, the lack of professional editing infrastructure, and the uncool but iconic "hot and stanky" recording environment.
  5. The team shares humorous anecdotes involving interactions with celebrities like Jack Black and Matt Stone, underscoring the importance of nervous, awkward, yet authentic human moments in their creative process.
  6. A fan-favorite moment is the unexpected female response to *We Like Sports*, recorded by Liz, which adds a layer of humor and balance to the show's male-centric tone.
  7. The episode concludes with a nostalgic reflection on friendship, creative collaboration, and the value of unfiltered, real-time improvisation in comedy and performance.

Summary:

The podcast returns to a stripped-down format, focusing solely on the core duo after fans requested a more intimate experience. It begins with a heartfelt voice note from Daniel Scheiner, a theater designer, who reflects on the emotional impact of being unexpectedly part of the conversation, particularly on how theater design—like seating and acoustics—shapes audience engagement. The hosts then relive their formative days filming *We Like Sports* at a rented LA house, detailing the chaotic, creative energy of the shoot, technical hurdles like digitizing mini-DV tapes, and the unideal, hot, air-conditioning-less recording room.

Humorous anecdotes surface about awkward encounters with celebrities like Jack Black and Matt Stone, emphasizing the value of nervous, authentic interactions. The episode also highlights a rare female response to the song, recorded by Liz, adding depth and balance to the male-dominated humor. Throughout, themes of friendship, improvisation, and shared creativity emerge, reinforcing the show’s roots in real, unfiltered collaboration.

The experience is framed as a nostalgic time capsule of early comedy development, celebrating the raw, imperfect, and deeply human moments that define their work.

FAQs

The theater rake refers to the seating arrangement in a theater, and the hosts discuss how it affects the audience's experience. They share that a poor rake design can make it hard to hear audience reactions, like laughter, which is something they personally noticed in an IMAX screening of their own movie.

Daniel Scheiner sent a voice note as a personal and respectful follow-up to the podcast discussion about theater rakes. He shared his thoughts on how surprising it was to hear the hosts talk about him while he was driving home from work, and he emphasized that he didn’t want to spoil details about his upcoming courtroom drama.

The podcast mentions that Daniel Scheiner is working on a new, slow-paced courtroom drama film. The hosts note that they cut out spoilers from the podcast episode to respect his creative process and protect the film’s secrecy.

The podcast references the 1938 radio broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds,' where listeners were so scared by the realistic portrayal that they believed it was real. The hosts note that Orson Welles reportedly chewed gum at the end, which helped dispel the fear and suggested the broadcast was fictional.

The team faced technical and logistical challenges, including digitizing footage from mini-DV tapes, which was a slow and tedious process requiring shot-by-shot transfer. They also struggled with poor air conditioning in the house, leading to hot and uncomfortable conditions during filming.

The video showcases the group's humor and bonding through absurdity, like pretending to be team captains and using ridiculous lines such as 'fuck with us and get some money.' It also reflects their shared sense of humor and dad-like traits, like being overly competitive and obsessed with sports.

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